[Acute ulcers of the gastrointestinal tract complicated by hemorrhage and perforation]

The data on 130 patients with acute ulcers of the gastrointestinal tract complicated hemorrhage and perforation are reported. Acute ulcers developed in patients with cardiovascular diseases (47%), intoxication (17.7%), postoperative paresis of the stomach and intestine (10%), other pathology (15.3%), and in medication (10%). The former manifested in acute hemorrhage in 108 patients, perforation--in 8, hemorrhage and perforation--in 14. In 86% of cases ulcers were located in the stomach, and in 63%--these were multiple. Conservative therapy was employed in 97 patients and 33 patients were operated upon. The mortality after early operations was 2.5 times as low as in the expectation policy and conservative therapy.